Anyway, midway through this hellish journey, the car was filled with terror. What the hell? Just pure raw audio chaos. Neither of us knew what was going on.

It was my phone, of course. Helpfully telling me that it was raining, via some absurd bust-through-my-DND 'alert'.

Not helpful.

OP said:

> me and my friends together built an 8 bit CPU…

– and if one replaces that with your suggestion:

> My friends and I together built an 8 bit CPU…

– you'll find that you are, gleefully, wrong.

For those unaware, the simplest test for 'me and x' vs. 'x and I' is that, in the latter case, you should be able to remove 'x and', and have the sentence still make sense.

For example, 'Me and Lucy went to the shops' is technically incorrect, because 'Lucy and I went to the shops' makes sense if we remove Lucy. 'I went to the shops'.

The pendant's adjustment fails this test:

> I together built an 8 bit CPU

A bot I am not.

Clicking "Try now" in fact just signs you up for Uber One. So I suppose you are, technically, trying it. For money.

Dirty. I'm Australian and I'm sure that wouldn't be legal.

This is kinda what 'masked email' services like Fastmail's – of which I am a delighted customer – do.

Until you've known the comfort of creating an address; giving it to a service; deciding that you want to end your relationship with them; just deleting that address, without changing your mailbox or infrastructure or archives or anything else … it's kinda life changing. I recommend everyone try it.

Also, the chances of a phisher trying to get my BigBank details by sending mail to lonely.chicken6382@spuriously-named-and-unused-other-than-for-email-domain.com are … well, it seems unlikely.

I've never felt more secure. For real.

I never said I was a good dev! That's why it would have taken me 6 months. To pretend that I could have done it in days is just silly.

My point – site roast over – is that it's absurd to suggest that LLMs don't help anyone 'ship' faster. Like them or not, it's a fact that they do.

Satisfied now? Will you stop asking this question? Thought not.

I'm not sure it is, if your primary business is selling hardware. People are still going to need a 5" wide screen and battery in their pocket in order to do things.

Orders of magnitude less than the literal trillions that others have?

Curious why? Its chart is a nightmare – up and down like a yo-yo. Not something I'd want to have to depend on.

Yeah you don't say. High of $124, currently $22. But hey: that's ~~gambling~~ stock trading for you.

https://au.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FIG/

I still vastly prefer paper books, however.

Edit: OMG too much. Toooo much.

    Want me to:
    - (a) stop here and save honest memories + commit, or…

It's insurance all the way down.

    Burger:    $5.00
    ----------------
    Meat:      $0.20
    Bun:       $0.05
    Staff:     $0.25
    Insurance: $4.50

I meant that after step 3, I was never interested in hearing from the service again.

I use Claude all day. It has written, under my close supervision¹, the majority of my new web app. As a result I estimate the process took 10x less time than had I not used Claude, and I estimate the code to be 5x better quality (as I am a frankly mediocre developer).

But I understand what the code does. It's just Astro and TypeScript. It's not magic. I understand the entire thing; not just 'the prompt that started it'.

¹I never fire-and-forget. I prompt-and-watch. Opus 4.7 still needs to be monitored.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306

Points: 322

# Comments: 203